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It isn't journalism: it's opinion. It's in the Food section [0], and tagged with "Critic's Notebook" anywhere the article is linked. That apparently being one
by ethbro 6y ago
It isn't journalism: it's opinion.
It's in the Food section [0], and tagged with "Critic's Notebook" anywhere the article is linked. That apparently being one of their blog / opinion lines for food.
It doesn't seem fair to look at modern news conglomerates (which typically combine news and opinion) and complain that the non-news content bismirches the journalism.
That content typically funds the journalism, and is the only reason the latter still exists.
A fair shot would be saying "I do not feel like this article is appropriately declared as opinion." Which, maybe. But I think that's debatable, and the NYT certainly differentiates a helluva lot better than Fox News and MSNBC.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/section/food https://www.nytimes.com/section/food
- frockington1 6y agoI would still expect proper evidence. This is equivalent of an article saying "The End of Goldendoodles" with the evidence being that my neighbors dog died. We should expect more from an institution that claims to be more
- ntsplnkv2 6y ago>It doesn't seem fair to look at modern news conglomerates (which typically combine news and opinion) and complain that the non-news content bismirches the journalism. And it's just this attitude that has caused the era of fake news. > A fair shot would be saying "I do not feel like this article is appropriately declared as opinion." Which, maybe. But I think that's debatable, and the NYT certainly differentiates a helluva lot better than Fox News and MSNBC. This is exactly the point. Fox News and MSNBC are some of the worst offenders - this does not excuse the NYT from it. Also I remind people that journalism is not just reporting of facts. If it was all newspapers would be lists of factoids. "Journalism, the collection, preparation, and distribution of news and related commentary" This is very clearly journalism.